Let's talk Golden Cuckoo Marans!

[morbius18]

Yeah I see in the third picture he stand like his father . what the egg s color of the pullets please. are you happy about.

cheers

I'm a little disappointed in the egg color, but they are workable.

 

[Chooks man]

No Bad my friend I see you have some 4 there that is a good start. you have a type. feathered legs, plumage color, So you can focus on the eggs color now. you will get there . I have faith on you and your stock. keep doing what you what you know.
Keep breeding them to the Black copper few time and you will be amized with a result.
all the best

 

[rainbowchick]

I'll be setting my first hatch using morbius' males this Saturday. Unfortunately, one of my hens was out of commission this week with a prolapsed vent. She has recovered and is on calcium supplements, so I'm hoping she starts laying again next week.
Now that my Lav Ams are laying too, I'll finally be able to send some eggs out to you morbius!

 

[Chooks man]

that is cool so we can see chicks hutched from Morbius rooster. good luck

 

[morbius18]

I'll be setting my first hatch using morbius' males this Saturday. Unfortunately, one of my hens was out of commission this week with a prolapsed vent. She has recovered and is on calcium supplements, so I'm hoping she starts laying again next week.
Now that my Lav Ams are laying too, I'll finally be able to send some eggs out to you morbius!

I'm going to be setting some more f1s to try to get more pullets and f2s tomorrow night. Just had a hatch finish today and bleached everything good. Letting it dry, then hopefully some f2s.

Todays hatch; 4 f1 GCMs, 4 f1 olive eggers and 2 GCM orpington crosses ( I really like these hens for some reason).

 

[morbius18]

I had bought some splash marans hatching eggs off ebay, and had terrible luck, those that hatched were all mine that I threw in with the splashes. I got 13, 7 were infertile or didn't develop at all, 3 made it part of the way and died. The last 3 died a few days before hatching. The membranes seemed to separate from the shells. I had about 75 percent or so of mine make it.

 

[Chooks man]

lovely looking chicks all F2 .
I can t wait tell i see your F2, what they will throw.

sorry to hrar about the splashes.

 

[morbius18]

So the buff orpington crosses with my GCM rooster really look like e+ GCM chicks:

 

[Chooks man]

yeah look like e+ barred chicks. nice looking thing.

you are going to be an expert one day in perfecting the Golden cuckoo colour pattern . keep going my friend.

tomorrow is the start of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. there is a marans there . is they 2 end year since thet have been accepted.

i ll take a few photos a post them to you guys to see .

 

[morbius18]

yeah look like e+ barred chicks. nice looking thing.

you are going to be an expert one day in perfecting the Golden cuckoo colour pattern . keep going my friend.

tomorrow is the start of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. there is a marans there . is they 2 end year since thet have been accepted.

i ll take a few photos a post them to you guys to see .

Thanks for the vote of confidence, I look forward to the show's pictures.

Setting a new batch of F1 Golden Cuckoo Marans, F2 Golden Cuckoo Marans, F3 Black Copper olive egger (got rid of the rooster, so no more of these), some F2 Golden Cuckoo marans over buff orpingtons and a few Golden Cuckoo marans over a blue copper marans (super dark eggs and should end up with blue and black barred).